Honors
- President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1950.
- President of the American Mathematical Society 1963-1964.
- Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1965.
- Associate of the French Academy of Sciences 1975.
- Awarded the National Medal of Science by the President of the United States Jimmy Carter 1979.
- Awarded the Steele Prize by the American Mathematical Society. 1984.
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